Acacia cyclops

Botanical Description

Acacia cyclops is a dense, spreading, evergreen shrub, often multi-stemmed, and growing 1 - 6 metres tall, sometimes becoming a small tree with a rounded crown and growing up to 8 metres tall with a bole up to 100cm long and 20cm in diameter. In windy, coastal sites it is sometimes no more than 50cm tall[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. , 1093 Title Invasive Species Compendium Publication Author Website http://www.cabi.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An immense resource - in depth information on over 900 species of invasive plants (it also has information on animals, fungi etc). , 1292 Title Acacia species as large-scale crop plants in theWestern Australian wheatbelt Publication Conservation Science W. Aust. 4 (3) : 96-108 (2002) Author Bartle J.; Cooper D.; Olsen G.; Carslake J. Website https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283798072 Publisher Year 2002 ISBN Description ]. Although it produces true leaves as a seedling, llike most members of this section of the genus, the mature plant does not have true leaves but has leaf-like flattened stems called phyllodes[ 397 Title Australian Native Plants Society Publication Author Website http://anpsa.org.au/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A series of fact sheets on Australian plants. Good photographs, brief description and information on uses, habitat, range, cultivation etc. ]. The tree is cultivated to provide shelter, especially in coastal situations, and is also used as a sand dune stabilizer and fuel crop. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 1093 Title Invasive Species Compendium Publication Author Website http://www.cabi.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An immense resource - in depth information on over 900 species of invasive plants (it also has information on animals, fungi etc). ]. Acacia cyclops is an extremely weedy species, although slow growing. Once established over large areas, it is difficult to remove or replace. It forms dense impenetrable stands that shade out native vegetation and that fire promotes spread into natural vegetation. It is invasive in South Africa where it has become established in forest gaps, dunes and along roadsides and watercourses; it is present in California, USA, where it it is showing invasive tendencies; it is also present in Portugal and is exhibiting invasive characteristics in Europe[ 1093 Title Invasive Species Compendium Publication Author Website http://www.cabi.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An immense resource - in depth information on over 900 species of invasive plants (it also has information on animals, fungi etc). ].